Ambassador Caroline Usikpedo-Oliseowe, Delivering Her Speech At The Event
ASABA/Nigeria: Experts in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs have urge governments to aim at achieving the most pressing needs among the 17 goals, as 2030 deadline of the program approaches.
They stated this in Asaba, during the National Conference on Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria, organized by the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on SDG’s and the Civil Society Advancement Forum on Sustainable Development.
The event was held with the theme: Localizing the SDG’S.
The convener, Ambassador Caroline Usikpedo-Oliseowe, explained why states in the country need to prioritize climate change, poverty eradication and gender equality as some of the pressing challenges contained in the seventeen SDG goals.
Mrs. Usikpedo-Oliseowe said the coalition of civil society is comprised of over five hundred NGOs across the 36 states and FCT and was committed to implementing and monitoring of the SDG goals in the country.
“Climate change you know is a priority and it’s affecting livelihood. It should be one of the goals that Delta State should prioritize.
“In terms of achievement Delta State is achieving Goal 5, because they are working so much on sexual and domestic violence.”
Speaking On SDG Goal 5: pertaining to gender equality, Martha Dunkwu, stressed that empowering women with education was the only way out of the problem.
Meanwhile, National Chairman, Civil Society Strategies Group Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, suggested that there was need for a legislation to promote the evaluation and monitoring of sustainable developmental programs.
“To ensure that they are being implemented the way they are planned, that resources are deployed where they are meant to be deployed.”
The Special Adviser to the President on SDG’s Dr. Adjoke Orelope-Adefulere and the DG National Senior Citizens Center, Dr. Emem Omokaro, addressed the conference via the zoom platform.
